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The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Nova Roma is a strategy, city builder and simulation game developed by Lion Shield and published by Hooded Horse.
Released on March 26th 2026 is available on Windows and MacOS in 18 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Spanish - Latin America and Portuguese - Portugal.

It has received 374 reviews of which 365 were positive and 9 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 23.99€ on Steam with a 20% discount, but you can find it for 15.49€ on Eneba.

The Steam community has classified Nova Roma into these genres:

Strategy City Builder Simulation Base Building Grand Strategy Historical Management Sandbox Building Economy Colony Sim Resource Management Open World Survival Singleplayer Moddable Diplomacy 4X Replay Value Early Access

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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-6600K (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 2200G (quad-core)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 285 (2 GB)
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS 12 Monterey
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-6600K (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 2200G (quad-core)
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 285 (2 GB)
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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March 2026
Ok, overall this is a pretty fun city builder with some nice graphics and obviously very similar gameplay as K&C! But, after 15 hrs of playing, 2 starts, some things really bother me. One, logistics and cart routes. Why is this so clunky, I really don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing. First I have to set the logistics on my many storehouses, then supply to certain trades, then set cart routes?? It’s too much, and I don’t want to do it. I wish it was automated at first, and then you can adjust it if you want. Second, I have 800+ wheat farmers, I barely see a piece of bread available for the gods. I think part of this is population vs trade so I can never ever have extra. And yes I have bakeries fully staffed. Third, tools never seem to collect either, I guess they just go to every trade that needs them, which is a bunch. Fourth, I have the aqueducts figured out but lord are they clunky. They worked better in K&C! Everything is downhill and they need to be rebuilt a lot. Fifth, money. I can’t even begin to talk about not having military, because all your coin will go to that. What are you supposed to do, tax everyone 80%?? No, because then you’ll have a bad happiness score. I guess you can sell things with trade ships, but it’s like never enough. So I ignore military, playing on easy mind you, and get invaded every hour or whatever, which obviously sucks and brings everyone down. Sixth, I feel like I’m just constantly building charcoal makers. Seventh, road upgrades, why do we have to retread every road? Why can’t there be chunks of road you can upgrade at a time? What a pain. I don’t know, it’s fun but frustrating. Hoping this gets through to the game devs.
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March 2026
Amazing job from the developers, been waiting years for this since i first saw that they were making the game. OG kingdoms and castles player right here.
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March 2026
First, this game uses a clear extension of the "Kingdoms and Castles" engine. It's very much improved and added upon, to the point where "K&C" is obsolete. I can't imagine returning to it. I love the addition of water physics and the ability to terraform. There's also an added level of customization to certain buildings, such as bathouses, apartments, and forums, I appreciate and hope will be fleshed out further. Something Nova Roma adds which was needed in the first game was a tech tree. However, you get tech points by completing requests from the gods. My biggest frustration, is that certain buildings require other materials to operate (or even be built), and it's not clear which until you unlock them. I'd appreciate if, for example, you couldn't unlock baths until you unlocked the marbel quarry, since marble is required to build them.
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March 2026
River flooded my clay pit, clay pit says "cant operate because it needs to be closer to the water" 10/10
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March 2026
If you've played Kingdoms and Castles, the other game by this developer, then you already have a good idea of what to expect. I played the demo extensively and the full game is effectively that with more stuff. Same charming style and sound you'd expect, but a tradeoff of (at the time of early access release) not having enemy AIs building their own plots in favor of a deeper management of your city itself and more ways it can fall apart internally. Definitely a more laid back experience than, say, the Caesar series of games, but nothing abnormal if you go in expecting more of their prior title. There's also a water physics system, where water spawns in set locations and flows naturally, providing fertility to the land as it flows and allowing it to be redirected through constructable dams and terraforming. You can use this to redirect water for farming or to combine with aqueducts for water-based city services in a neat departure from the extremely simplistic water systems present in K&C. Price is a little bit steep, however - with K&C being $15, I'd expect this new title to sit around the $20 mark with the current amount of content. $30 is a bit steep for a game that currently offers not much over its predecessor, though I'm hopeful that we get the content to match considering the extensive updates K&C got through its lifespan. Pick this one up if you're considering something easy-going and charming with some interesting mechanics involving city management and water physics, or if you just want to support the dev. Either way, you'll get something fun with the hope of more to come.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Nova Roma is currently priced at 23.99€ on Steam.

Nova Roma is currently available at a 20% discount. You can purchase it for 23.99€ on Steam.

Nova Roma received 365 positive votes out of a total of 374 achieving a rating of 8.96.
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Nova Roma was developed by Lion Shield and published by Hooded Horse.

Nova Roma is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Nova Roma is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Nova Roma is not playable on Linux.

Nova Roma is a single-player game.

Nova Roma does not currently offer any DLC.

Nova Roma does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Nova Roma does not support Steam Remote Play.

Nova Roma is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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